You got that right mate...when cars were CARS, men were MEN, women were WOMEN, and America was still AMERICA!
Posted on 03/26/2023 12:32:19 PM PDT by rktman
I’ll keep my Ford diesel thanks
I drove an old ford flatbed and was able to rearrange the letters on the front of the hood to spell DORF. Dumb Old Rejects Failing!
Yeah...I thought they were gonna stick with hybrids. I miss the wife’s Prius. 46 mpg.
“Give me something with a carburetor...”
Look into mechanical fuel injection:)
More components to fail. And yes, they dont live as long, its better to have a normal engine thats bigger than a smaller one with a turbo. It will have a longer life.
Its the same thing they do with appliances today. Smaller compressors that have to run longer and harder. More sensors all over that fail and cause problems and/or make it inoperative.
EV’s are the compact fluorescent light bulb of cars.
Even with a carburetor, the only way you’ll be getting around will be by pushing it. If EMP damage amounts to what has been claimed, anything electrical or electronic will be rendered useless. You gotta have something to get a spark to those plugs. Coil? Even if you have points, a battery is required. Somewhere along the line dead electric parts will stand in the way.
“Ford Motor Company says its electric vehicle (EV) unit, “Ford Model e,” is losing billions of dollars...”
I thought erotic material was frowned upon here?😎
Tesla doesn't make a profit from selling EVs. Any profit Tesla makes comes from its sale of "greenhouse gas" credits, which it is permitted to generate under regulations first promulgated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under the Obama Administration. The way those regulations work, Tesla generates these GHG "credits," which it can then sell to other automobile manufacturers, who need such credits to remain in compliance with EPA GHG tailpipe emission standards.
The only reason Tesla is still in business is that the federal government, some years ago now, created out of whole cloth a system that allows Tesla to turn a fake "profit." This was done quite intentionally on the part of the Obama EPA, with this very outcome in mind.
This GHG "credit" system, by the way, provides the explanation why Toyota has yet go "all in" on EVs. Toyota had developed and marketed its Prius "hybrid" vehicle some years in advance of the Obama EPA's creating this credit system. At the time the system was inaugurated, EPA decided to give Toyota a large "bank" of credits from the get-go, to reflect the company's having developed a quasi-EV style vehicle before there was any federal incentive to do so. Toyota has been living off that big bank of credits ever since.
Recently, Toyota's CEO has expressed skepticism that EVs will be "ready for primetime" anytime soon. This, I gather, was Toyota's long range strategy: i.e., live off its bank of credits, resist putting a lot of capital in developing true EVs (as, for instance, Ford and GM have been doing, to decidedly mixed results at best), while hoping that the government-backed push for EVs will eventually taper off.
Time will tell whether Toyota has made the right call or not. But Tesla? Tesla isn't an automobile manufacturing company. It's a GHG credit generating company. That's what it actually sells to turn a "profit."
Soon it will be the only choice. After gasoline is taxed up the wazoo, and insurance rates for ICE cars skyrocket.
So is GM.
That’s right and that goes for all of the American bailout car makers.
I think, maybe, Toyota is not yet. They say they will still make ICE cars.
You got that right mate...when cars were CARS, men were MEN, women were WOMEN, and America was still AMERICA!
GM is stuffing small turbo engines in the silverado now too..
Their AFM V8 is garbage.
Electric vehicles are a luxury item with instant torque and acceleration. They are not practical, and won’t be unless battery technology and battery safety advance markedly. I have a Tesla. I like it, but I definitely don’t think I’m saving the planet.
Mechanical diesel injection has entered the chat.. you’ll have to open the fuel valve and push it to start it, but it’ll run and needs no electric support.
I had a old benz that would not stop running because the vacuum pump quit. you had to open the hood and push the manual shut down lever on the injection pump. simple and EMP proof.
just make sure it’s a manual and parked at the top of a hill. a shot of cosby sauce (ether) and a push down the hill. she’ll light off.
except insurance rates for EVs are the rates going up.
totalled because of a dent in the battery and then there is that pesky fire problem.
Ford safety tip,
Keep the windows open if you run the generator in the cab.
“...the woke states will simply refuse to register ICE vehicles in a few years...”
I was wondering what was going to happen to all the car company’s employees who will not have a job when the market loses the petroleum aspects. And what about the franchise owners of gas stations, pipeline employees, port employees for export... Wonder how big the unemployment roster is going to be and who’s going to pay that bill. The can to open is right next to the tackle box. Action/reaction
wy69
I guess technically the sound of the generator could count as an exhaust note, which would make it somewhat more realistic compared to the fake Dodge Charger recording.
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